Description
Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (TCP outage) via a series of TCP sessions that have pending data and a (1) small or (2) zero receive window size, and remain in the FIN-WAIT-1 or FIN-WAIT-2 state indefinitely, aka "TCP/IP Orphaned Connections Vulnerability."
References
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5965 vdb-entry signature
- http://www.recurity-labs.com/content/pub/Microsoft_Windows_CVE-2009-1926
- 36269 vdb-entry
- 57797 vdb-entry
- TA09-251A third-party-advisory
- MS09-048 vendor-advisory
- 20090909 TCP/IP Orphaned Connections Vulnerability mailing-list